Timely Essence

Running out of time

To look you in the eyes

Life draining out of me

Time just flies

 

Out the window and brushes your cheek

Just a section of insanity

Of the wide open world we live in

All the piety and the profanity

 

Spread out in the wide open spaces of the pastures

And the cramped closures of city houses

The little things of hope and good

And the small things that arouses

 

The most enormous feelings built up inside

Like a concrete wall ten feet thick

Only in me do I confide

The rest of the world sealed off

 

Relocated to this small town

From an average sized city

Time rolling by slowly in this fragment of the world

Sometimes just being clever and witty

 

Scampering to finish what I started

A long time ago in that city I was born and raised

Existence flowing into me from the earth

Time is just another slowing craze

 

Reviews

[Tina Kline]

This has the sense of pressure, like there is just not enough time or space in the world, just no way to relax. Even if I'm way off I really do like this poem, your word choices, lay out/structure and over all feel it gives. Nice job.

[BelowABridge]

I like all the contrast in this poem. You do an awesome job with poetry and I hope you write more soon.
With this poem it reminds how I've been feeling like I just need more time. Time during the day to get things done... and at night to rest and understand whats happening in life. Life rushes by and then you end up missing all the past that went so fast.